Appraisal Skills Training Courses
Be an effective and confident performance appraiser
This comprehensive one day course gives you the professional appraisal skills to conduct meaningful performance appraisal meetings, make the appraisal process a positive experience and handle difficult conversations confidently.
In a nutshell you’ll learn how to…
Prepare for and conduct appraisal meetings.
Handle difficult conversations confidently.
Set meaningful performance objectives.
Ensure the process isn’t just a tick box exercise.
Next available course…
Date: TBC
Venue: Central London, One Park Crescent, W1W 5PN
Delegates: Maximum 8 people per course
Price: £329
Enlightening! I feel a lot more confident about running appraisals now. Particularly useful was the part about objective setting. I’ve always struggled with this and now feel in a much stronger position.
Aisha, SMBCE
Who should attend?
The course is suitable for employees with responsibility for managing the performance appraisal process. It’s beneficial for appraisers new to running appraisals and also for those facing specific performance appraisal challenges.
Course objectives and overview.
Communicating the benefits and rationale for performance appraisals (employee, appraiser, organisation).
Managing the appraisal process
Practical essentials for performance appraisal success.
Pitfalls and handy tips to make the process worthwhile, positive and meaningful.
Engaging your appraisees in the appraisal process and ensuring they see it as a positive activity.
Ensuring performance appraisal is a continuous process of support and development throughout the year.
Conducting appraisal review meetings professionally
Keys to effective planning and preparation for the appraisal meeting.
Being aware of your instinctive communication style as an appraiser.
Adapting your style to ensure an open and positive discussion.
Body Language tips; using positive verbal and non-verbal behaviour.
Employing effective listening and questioning skills.
Providing performance feedback
Dealing with issues of poor performance honestly and confidently.
Using positive language even when communicating messages people don’t want to hear.
Ensuring fairness by balancing positive and ‘developmental’ feedback.
Using facts and observations to ensure objectivity.
Handling a difficult conversation calmly and professionally.
Setting meaningful personal objectives
Developing and agreeing clear, realistic and measurable personal objectives with appraisees.
Creating the link between personal objectives and improved appraisee performance.
Ensuring objectives focus on improvement and development.
Using a process to monitor and review objectives.
Linking personal objectives to team objectives.
We focus solely on performance appraisal training. We’re a specialist provider. Our facilitators are all experts in the performance management field. We believe small class sizes are key. That’s why we guarantee there will never be more than 8 delegates on a course. Booking a course with us means you’ll receive personal, focused, expert appraisal skills tuition.
I’ve run appraisals before so I was already pretty familiar with my responsibilities as an appraiser before the appraisal training. Having said that, I’m really glad I attended though. It’s made me realise that I was doing all the work! Now I’m going to involve my appraisees more – that way hopefully they’ll feel more positive about it and get more from the process. The objective setting advice was particularly helpful.
Anita, Household
I didn’t think I would enjoy the appraisal training as much as I did! I feel a lot happier now – This will be the first time I’ve been an appraiser so I have been feeling a bit anxious (especially as I’m appraising some of the people I used to work alongside!) Weirdly, I’m kind of looking forward to the challenge now! Thanks.
Sam, Echo